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Saved by His grace in 1974, from 9 years of professing atheism into His loving arms. Living with my husband in the middle of a mountain meadow. GRIN! Wanting to spread the good news about His redemptive plan for our lives through written media.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

God Gently Convicts and Corrects Us, Satan Condemns

Can we think of times in our lives when we have been
corrected, humiliated and shamed? I am sure we all can. Then there are those
times when we have been “called to task” by someone who was firm but able to do
the job in a gentle and loving way so we ended up feeling we could do it and we
would do it the correct way in the future.

God always whispers to our hearts His gentle rebuke and
correction while convicting us or our wrong:

Child, child, you have not grieved me so
much by your absence into busyness as much as you have robbed yourself of My
Closeness and strength and renewal of your mind. You haven’t been still – then
you overload. You sense out workings of that and it isn’t what you’d choose, is
it? Be still and KNOW - that I AM God. I still love you, of course.
Selah.

The
Lord is gentle yet makes His point. He can make you understand where your
choices are taking you but give you hope. He shows you his heart in the whole
situation and gives you a remedy. He makes you feel like a toddler who tripped,
stumbled and maybe even fell but was picked up by his/her daddy. Picked up and
brushed off and encouraged to try and try again.

The
enemy is great at condemnation, taking the truth and rubbing our nose in it so
to speak. He is not beyond stealing, lying, killing and doing all that lead to
destruction – ours.

Satan
speaks with condemnation and condescension in his attitude and voice:

You sure have messed up not having your
quiet times lately – God is walking away and leaving you right where you want
to be – without him.

Satan
makes you feel hopeless, condemned; like the lights were turned off and no one
paid the electric bill. He makes you feel unworthy (and though we are, we have
Jesus who can, will and does forgive if we but ask) Satan makes us feel we are
in an unredeemable position. Satan is the accuser of the brethren – the liar
the one who comes to kill, steal and destroy.

SO next time you hear a little voice, pray, and discern
where it is coming from. If it is the Lord you have hope and can be forgiven.
If it is the other guy, you can tell him to go where the Lord Jesus Christ said
he should go.

Below are some scriptures relating to this which you can
always hold close and use when you have times of struggle, when the enemy comes
to condemn or when you need the forgiveness of God.